Players

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establishment by Booth

In 1888 Booth founded a club, the
Players, in New York City that was intended as a gathering place for actors and eminent men in other professions. He lived at the club in his last years. His farewell stage appearance was as Hamlet in 1891 at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn. To his own and later generations, the nobility of his mature character, his splendid achievement in his art, and his...

role of Drew

...When Frohman died in the
Lusitania disaster of 1915, Drew’s career began to ebb. So esteemed was he by his fellow actors, however, that he was chosen lifetime president of the
Players’ club, an honour previously accorded only to Edwin Booth, founder of the club, and Joseph Jefferson. His memoirs,
My Years on the Stage, were published in 1922.